Working Smart in Adobe Photoshop CS2
Working Smart in Adobe Photoshop CS2
ISBN: 0321335392
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: N/A
Pages: 161
Pages: 161
Authors: Conrad Chavez
- Working Smart in ADOBE Photoshop CS2
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Introduction
- How This Book Is Organized
- Tips for Reading This Book
- Special Thanks
- Chapter one. Optimizing Your Computer for Photoshop
- The Processor
- RAM
- Advanced RAM Tweaks
- Using More than 2GB of RAM
- Hard Disks
- Monitors and Video Cards
- Other Ways to Optimize Your Computer
- Activation: Using Photoshop on Multiple Computers
- From Beginner to Expert
- Chapter two. Optimizing Your Workspace
- Arranging Palettes
- Saving Your Palette Arrangements
- Optimizing for Small Monitors
- Optimizing for Multiple Monitors
- Editing Keyboard Shortcuts
- Editing Menus
- Saving Your Workspaces
- Arranging Document Windows
- Chapter three. Optimizing Yourself
- Getting Around Efficiently
- Get the Most from Keyboard Shortcuts
- Shortcuts for Entering Numbers and Text
- Using Context Menus
- It s All in Your Mind
- Chapter four. Getting Ahead with Presets and Saved Settings
- Creating and Using Your Own Tool Presets
- Kinds of Presets
- Viewing All Tool Presets at Once
- Viewing and Managing All Presets at Once
- Using Adobe PDF Presets
- Loading and Saving Settings
- Chapter five. Creating How-To Tutorials and Tips
- What s the Idea Behind How-To Topics?
- Using a How-To Topic
- Making Your Own How-To Topic
- Distributing How-To Topics
- Chapter six. Working with Adobe Bridge
- How Can Adobe Bridge Help?
- Making Bridge Equal to Your Tasks
- Annotating Files in Bulk
- Batch Processing and Automating with Bridge
- Walking Through a Batch Process
- Chapter seven. Opening the Right Files Quickly
- Finding Files Fast
- Saving Searches as Collections
- Tuning Your Selections
- Opening Multiple Files
- Chapter eight. Positioning Precisely
- Tweaking Units of Measure
- The Grid and Guides
- Aligning and Distributing Layers
- Positioning Example: a Web Page
- Chapter nine. Smarter Selections
- Marquee and Lasso Tools
- Selecting Based on Tone or Color
- Selecting by Drawing a Path
- Combining Selections
- Chapter ten. Working Efficiently with Layers
- Creating Bitmap Layers
- Selecting Layers
- Adjustment Layers
- Layer Groups
- Shape Layers
- Smart Objects
- Layer Comps
- Chapter eleven. Correcting Many Images Quickly
- Transferring Adjustment Layers
- Transferring Camera Raw Adjustments
- Chapter twelve. Accelerating Appearances with Layer Styles
- When to Use Layer Styles
- Adding a Layer Style to a Layer
- Using the Layer Style Dialog Box
- Applying a Layer Style to Other Layers
- Scaling a Layer Style
- Chapter thirteen. Adding Transparency to Layers and Documents
- Seeing Transparency
- Choosing the Right Transparency Method
- Setting Opacity
- Making Masks
- Using Blending Modes for Transparency Effects
- Making Transparent Backgrounds for Other Programs
- Chapter fourteen. Rewriting History
- Undoing and Redoing
- Using the History Palette Productively
- Keeping a History Log
- Chapter fifteen. Saving Documents Productively
- Saving a Master Document for Flexibility
- Saving for Specific Media
- Using the Save as a Copy Feature
- Playing Nice with Other Programs
- Chapter sixteen. Printing Right the First Time
- Previewing Print Size
- Previewing Print Colors by Soft-Proofing
- Chapter seventeen. Saving Time with Actions
- Loading Actions
- Running Actions
- Planning an Action
- Creating Actions
- Editing Actions
- Enhancing Your Actions
- Links About Actions
- Chapter eighteen. Batch Processing and Droplets
- Using the Image Processor
- Using the Batch Dialog Box
- Batch Processing Examples
- Using Droplets for Instant Batch Processing
- Chapter nineteen. Automating with Scripts
- Scripting Languages You Can Use
- Running Scripts
- How Scripting Works
- Scripting Resources
- Example: Creating and Installing a Simple Script
- Chapter twenty. Generating Data-Driven Graphics
- Creating the Template
- Defining Variables for Layers
- Creating a Data Set
- Generating the Final Documents
- Chapter twenty-one. Using Photoshop with the Adobe Creative Suite
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Acrobat and PDF
- Adobe GoLive
- Adobe Bridge
- Chapter twenty-two. Jumping Directly to Other Programs
- Jumping Between Photoshop and ImageReady
- Jumping to Other Graphics Programs
- Index
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Working Smart in Adobe Photoshop CS2
ISBN: 0321335392
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: N/A
Pages: 161
Pages: 161
Authors: Conrad Chavez
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